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Just Dave wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

puma713 wrote:
Maybe it was a reference to the LR Achilles that was revealed at GD.

What is this Wonderous machine? The Land Raider Achilles? Is it week at the Achilles heel? Did finnaly own Paris?
Did it kill Hector? Did it steal a princess of Troy?
Or is it a badass land raider just called Achilles, because noone could think of a nongreek name?

What like the greek-named Annihilator, Destructor, Vindicator, Whirlwind, Redeemer, Crusader and Godhammer? Sure.

That was what he was getting at. That he see it an out of nowhere naming convention that it should have had a name like "annihilator... etc."

The Rogue Trader era fluff mentions a number of Space Marine tanks with Greek names... the Land Raider Spartan which was the first variant that could transport terminators which even had rules or the Heracles/Hercules Battle tank which is only ever shown in art work.

o_O

Those look like SM superheavies.

Pyriel - it said exactly the opposite, 1 special per 5 man - so 1 @5-9, 2@ 10 would be how I read that.

Ah, you´re right.

Sadly the mini puragation squads are no longer possible so I fear we will see either full 10 man squads with 2 weapon options or 5 man squads and nothing in between.
Hopefully this is not what will happen since I cant see the reason of forcing set squad numbers to squads/armies where the cheapest mini will cost 25+ points a piece.

aka_mythos wrote:The Rogue Trader era fluff mentions a number of Space Marine tanks with Greek names... the Land Raider Spartan which was the first variant that could transport terminators which even had rules or the Heracles/Hercules Battle tank which is only ever shown in art work.

cool pic. what book is that from? i've got a sprinkling of books from rogue trader but have never seen that one. that might work as a baneblade conversion!

Its from one of the original rulebooks, I'm pretty sure.
For conversions look here... this guy did one:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/267859.page

Yep I remember reading alot of greek names for Land Raiders. Thats why me and my friends make our variants of Land Raiders. And call them after angels and such.

aka_mythos wrote:Its from one of the original rulebooks, I'm pretty sure.
For conversions look here... this guy did one:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/267859.page

definitely a RT era pic from the style and designs but i'm curious which book specifically. it's not the original book because it doesn't make much mention of chaos (and i have it and am familiar with the pics) and i don't recall seeing it in the compendium either.

thats cool!

If I recall correctly it is from a epic rule book.

It appeared in a number of books. I know its in the Chapter Approved book and maybe Astronomicon... it was one of GWs few RT era 2 page spreads so GW reused it a bunch.

My sources say that the old splash page of the Hercules tank is from WD 120, I've never read WD 120 so I don't know for sure.

sonofruss wrote:If I recall correctly it is from a epic rule book.

Sounds right to me, the art style is reminiscent of many of the Epic piccies.

I was in the GW today and one of the staff there asked if I was looking forward to the upcoming new Grey Knights and I said I was. then, he proceded to mention that they were all going to be plastic (which I think is a given anyway right?) but he also said that GK and sisters were both going to be in the same codex.

Don't know where he got that from but I thought the general consensus was that sisters were getting their own codex later next year? The staff in the GW say they only know as soon as we know but he seemed pretty certain about this - I'm not sure I'd like them both in the same codex but it is what he said.

ColdSadHungry wrote:I was in the GW today and one of the staff there asked if I was looking forward to the upcoming new Grey Knights and I said I was. then, he proceded to mention that they were all going to be plastic (which I think is a given anyway right?) but he also said that GK and sisters were both going to be in the same codex.

Don't know where he got that from but I thought the general consensus was that sisters were getting their own codex later next year? The staff in the GW say they only know as soon as we know but he seemed pretty certain about this - I'm not sure I'd like them both in the same codex but it is what he said.

Take it with a grain of salt

It's not surprising, but at this point, we have enough information to know for sure that they will NOT be in the same book.

ColdSadHungry wrote:I was in the GW today and one of the staff there asked if I was looking forward to the upcoming new Grey Knights and I said I was. then, he proceded to mention that they were all going to be plastic (which I think is a given anyway right?) but he also said that GK and sisters were both going to be in the same codex.

Don't know where he got that from but I thought the general consensus was that sisters were getting their own codex later next year? The staff in the GW say they only know as soon as we know but he seemed pretty certain about this - I'm not sure I'd like them both in the same codex but it is what he said.

Black/Redshirts have NO clue of whats coming up. Any of them who do don't say anything 'cause they'd get fired.

That is an awesome image, thanks for sharing! I don't recall ever seeing it before and that's rare!

True, thanks for the image aka_mythos, if you have more of these gems to show us I´d appreciate it very much.

Is that a giant assault marine? Why would they go through the effort of making a titan look so humanoid? Where's they get such large bolters for him

Where'd that huge tire come from, while I'm on the subject?

I think that's the Assault marines bolter you've mistaken.

I'm drunk and being an ass. Ignore this.

ColdSadHungry wrote:I was in the GW today and one of the staff there asked if I was looking forward to the upcoming new Grey Knights and I said I was. then, he proceded to mention that they were all going to be plastic (which I think is a given anyway right?) but he also said that GK and sisters were both going to be in the same codex.

Don't know where he got that from but I thought the general consensus was that sisters were getting their own codex later next year? The staff in the GW say they only know as soon as we know but he seemed pretty certain about this - I'm not sure I'd like them both in the same codex but it is what he said.

Highly doubt it,based on all the rumors we've heard. The only way I could see it happening is if they threw a few SoB units in the army list for use as Inquistion allies,but there's no way they are combining the two armies into one codex. It doesn't make sense,from a fluff standpoint,and it's just waaaaaaayyyyyy to many plastic kits to get out that quickly. In addition to all the GK plastics,the crossover plastics[Stormraven,Libby Dread] that haven't yet been produced from the BA codex,and the =I= units,add plastic kits for your baseline SoB squads,Exorcist,Seraphim,Retributers,maybe even Repentia,plus new SoB units. We'd be waiting on mini's until the month before the next Dark Eldar codex drops if they did them like that.

And really, after the lack of plastics, the most important thing the Sisters need fixed is the lack of fluff in their codex. Sticking them in a codex with the GKs makes that less likely.

You have to remember that GW staff members have to be sure about everything they tell you . . . So when he sounded confident when telling you what he thought, it doesn't mean he's actually confident, it just means he is keeping his aura of authority, and supreme knowledge =D

Take this to questions about rules, tell you the wrong rules but make it sound right and confident, or use the age old "Have you looked it up in the rulebook?" =p

And . . . OMG! I want to buy GK . . . But there is no way I will be done with my DE by then . . . GRR! Damn you GW taking all my money, and yet still keeping me happy about being poor =p

Oshova

Me too!
GRR- Starting DKoK, but can't inish in time for GK!!!
AAAARGH!

I'd love to start GKs but only if they can have an assassin. I think I'll have to wait 'n' see.

Kind of threadomancy, but assassins are rumoured to be in.

Yeah...it was always strange to have to buy an inquisitor to be able to buy an assassin...if they're not in the GK codex then my vindicare will be collecting dust in the corner. You can't say that their assassin sales would go up if they weren't included in DH or SoB codecies, only inquisition.

I am very interested to see what this 'unknown walker' model is, and if it even exists. A special GK walker would be awesome, so long as it isn't just a penitent engine clone.

Ehsteve wrote:

I am very interested to see what this 'unknown walker' model is, and if it even exists. A special GK walker would be awesome, so long as it isn't just a penitent engine clone.

A Knight titan equipped for GK would be sweet.

IMO a Knight titan should have been done already. Im 40k scale it would only be about 6 inches tall, so it would be easy to do and keep in a good price range. Sales would be crazy...especially if the sold a chaos version, or at least a chaos bits pack for it. Would have been better than the plastic Baneblade IMO.

Mad4Minis wrote:

Ehsteve wrote:

I am very interested to see what this 'unknown walker' model is, and if it even exists. A special GK walker would be awesome, so long as it isn't just a penitent engine clone.

A Knight titan equipped for GK would be sweet.

IMO a Knight titan should have been done already. Im 40k scale it would only be about 6 inches tall, so it would be easy to do and keep in a good price range. Sales would be crazy...especially if the sold a chaos version, or at least a chaos bits pack for it. Would have been better than the plastic Baneblade IMO.

someone homemade one in my opinion it"s awesome

A lot of people homemake Knights. I think an official one from GW would be totally boss though.